The 'Token' Awards

Recipients of the Society’s annual token of appreciation.

The award was instigated in 2003 as a symbol of the Society’s gratitude to an individual member or group of members who had made an outstanding contribution to the Society and/or Railway over the preceding year.

The award is usually given to the recipient at the Annual General Meeting. The recipient is chosen by the Society’s board of directors and can be nominated by any member; see details of how to nominate a member below.

The award is a half size replica of the original Welsh Highland Railway Snowdon Ranger to Rhyd Ddu (South Snowdon) single line token.

Year	Recipient	Award given for
2003*	Ivan Ball	Retiring membership secretary, for setting up the membership database.
2004	Colin Hill	Leading K1 team for 9 years.
2005	John Sweet	Retiring renewals and membership secretary.
2006	Bob Carnell	Retiring treasurer & dealing with Gift Aid claims following registration of Society as a charity.
2007	Alf Williams	Outstanding volunteer effort at an average of 5 days per week with the locomotive department at Dinas.
2008	John Sreeves	Outstanding voluntary contribution in designing all the major bridges on the reconstructed railway.
2009	Stuart McNair	Extraordinary voluntary contribution as civil engineer to Phase Four of the reconstruction of the railway.
2010	David Tidy and Laurence Armstrong	Setting up the Society’s website and curating Dr Ben Fisher’s WHR project website following his sudden death.
2011	Barrie Clark	For outstanding volunteer effort as a track volunteer from the start of Phase1 to completion of Phase 4 as well as work with K1.

* In 2003 a replica of the token was also given to Roland Doyle in perpetuity, in recognition of his work managing the rebuilding of the railway from Caernarfon to Rhyd Ddu.

Nominating a member for the Society’s Token of Appreciation:

•    The person to be nominated must be a current member of the Society and the person nominating as well as the person seconding the nomination must also be current members of the Society.
•    The nomination must be made in writing to the Society Board’s secretary (details on page 2 of The Snowdon Ranger) by the 1st June.
•    The nomination must state clearly the reason, in not more than 250 words why you think that the particular member is worthy in your opinion to receive the token of appreciation.
•    Current Society board members are not eligible to be nominated.